Shaun Costello

Shaun Costello began directing for "loops" (10-minute scenes shown in coin-operated viewers in adult theaters) in NYC in the early 1970s, and soon was directing (and acting in) full porn movies and other grindhouse "roughies" shown in Times Square's 42nd Street adult theaters. Costello took work where he could get it, often working for the Mob, who owned many adult theaters and distribution, and working under different aliases for different theaters so that no one (at the time) knew that he was his own competition. Eventually moving on to a mainstream documentary career, Costello written and directed grindhouse movies - rough and violent and reflecting of their times - have seen a resurgence as the 2010's have seen these movies be remastered and re-released and often seen for the first time in decades. Anyone interested in the history of American porn or grindhouse/exploitation theater of the late 1960s and 1970s will likely have encountered Shaun Costello's work, often unknowingly due to his prolific use of aliases.

Cast

Pandora's Mirror

Waiter / Man in Audition Line

The Untamed Vixens

Cheryl's Surrender

Joe / TV Reporter

Joy Of Humiliation

Biker with Cigarette

The Fury in Alice

The Porn Brokers

(archive footage)

Venture Into the Bizzare

Closing Narration (voice)

The Two Lives of Jennifer

The Summer of Suzanne

Sexual Customs in Scandinavia

Cherry Hustlers

Company Investigator

Private Practice

Schoolgirl's Reunion

Football Announcer (voice) / Autograph Seeker / Guy at Party

Guy with Glasses

Hymns from the Abyss

Self (archive footage)

Sensuous Vixens

Photo Model with Mustache

Midnight Desires

Chauffeur / Highwayman (uncredited)

Police Station Cop / Man at Car Window

Double Pleasure

(as Russ Carlson)

The Magical Ring

First Fantasy Lover

Come Fly with Us

Slave of Pleasure

Richard Anselm / Masked Guy

Guess Who's Coming

A Taste Of Bette

Daughters of Discipline

Mistress Electra

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Sensuous Fly Girls

Good Samaritan / Man in Black

Gladys and Her All Girl Band

The Tycoon's Daughter

Newspaper Reader / Radio Newscaster

Dr. Warren Counter

Honeymoon Suite

The Travails of June

The School for Sexual Arts

Guy in Final Class

The Dark Side of Danielle

Bruce / Betty's Master

Love in the Rain

Shaun (uncredited)

That Lady from Rio

Sex Slave (uncredited)

Teachers and Cream

The Story of Eloise

Sexual Freedom in the Ozarks

Newscaster / Homer Heaply

Lisa Meets Mr. Big

Kathy's Graduation Present

Girl Scout Cookies

Joe Rock Superstar

Rock the Guitarist / Voice of Walter Cockite

The Fire in Francesca

Tina Makes a Deal

More Than Sisters

Orgy Guy with Two Girls

Come And Be Purified

Brother Francis

Lady on the Couch

Poker Buddy (uncredited)

The Passions of Carol

New York Construction Co.

Crew

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Special Effects, Title Designer

Pandora's Mirror

Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design

Dracula Exotica

Director, Writer, Producer

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor

Writer, Producer, Editor, Director

Maxines' Dating Service

The Summer of Suzanne

Writer, Director

Writer, Director

The Dark Side of Danielle

Writer, Director

Honeymoon Suite

Writer, Director

The Two Lives of Jennifer

Director, Producer, Writer

Writing for Time

Director of Photography, Editor, Director

New York Construction Co.

Writer, Director, Editor

Associate Producer

Schoolgirl's Reunion

Writer, Producer, Editor, Director

Writer, Producer, Director

Sexual Freedom in the Ozarks

Writer, Producer, Director

Director, Writer

Come And Be Purified

Producer, Director

The Story of Eloise

Writer, Producer, Editor, Director

Lady on the Couch

Producer, Editor, Director, Writer

Midnight Desires

Screenplay, Producer, Director, Editor

Kathy's Graduation Present

Writer, Director

Afternoon Delights

Editor, Director, Screenplay

Lisa Meets Mr. Big

Writer, Director

Teachers and Cream

Writer, Producer, Director

Tina Makes a Deal

Producer, Editor, Director, Writer

Gladys and Her All Girl Band

Writer, Director

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Director, Writer, Producer

Director, Writer

The Passions of Carol

Screenplay, Director, Editor, Producer, Special Effects, Visual Effects, Main Title Designer

Slave of Pleasure

Screenplay, Producer, Director

The Untamed Vixens

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Cheryl's Surrender

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Writer, Producer, Director

Dominatrix Without Mercy

Director, Writer

Producer, Editor, Director, Writer

The Fury in Alice

Director, Writer, Producer

More Than Sisters

Director, Screenplay

Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Special Effects, Visual Effects

Daughters of Discipline

Director, Writer, Producer

Director, Writer, Producer, Title Designer

Come Fly with Us

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Sensuous Vixens

Director, Writer

Director, Writer, Producer, Title Designer, Additional Photography

Director, Writer, Producer

Mistress Electra

Director, Writer, Producer, Title Designer

Sensuous Fly Girls

Director, Writer, Producer

Prisoner of Pleasure

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

The Tycoon's Daughter

The Travails of June

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

The School for Sexual Arts

That Lady from Rio

Director, Writer

Joe Rock Superstar

Girl Scout Cookies

The Fire in Francesca

Director, Writer